'Brain Bee' annual competition set to take place Wednesday

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About 30 students from several local high schools are set to compete in Wednesday's seventh-annual "Brain Bee" competition.

Hosted by Burke Rehabilitation Hospital in White Plains, the annual tournament tests students in grades 9-12 on their knowledge of eight different categories about the brain. They include: anatomy, neuroscience, types of diagnoses and brain cells.

Students will be tested based on short-answer questions, which will be graded by volunteers, and Burke researchers, neuroscientists and physical, occupational and speech therapists will review and discuss answers with participants.

Participants will include teens from high schools in Chappaqua, Irvington, Rye, Edgemont, Hartsdale and the Bronx.

Cash prizes, in the amounts of $500, $300 and $200, will be awarded to first, second and third place winners. The student in first place will head to Washington, D.C. where the National Brain Bee event will take place. The winner of that will then go on to the international championship in Germany.

The Westchester Brain Bee will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 28 in Burke’s Rosedale conference room, 785 Mamaroneck Ave., building 4, in White Plains. For more information and to register to compete, go to Burke's website.

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